Nerve expansion seen on ultrasound predicts histologic but not functional nerve injury after intraneural injection in pigs

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-139

  Lupu, Catalin Mario ^a   Kiehl, Tim Rasmus ^b   Chan, Vincent W S ^a   El Beheiry, Hossam ^c   Madden, Melissa ^b   Brull, Richard ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c Trillium Health Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTRANEURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDIAN NERVE; NEEDLE; NERVE ELONGATION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; ULTRASOUND;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LIDOCAINE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE BLOCK; NEURITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77952400248     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181d25cfe     Document Type: Article

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